Improved rrttit-slicer



fitti-liteit Letters Patent No. 97,462, dated November 250, 12?69.

IMPROVED FRUIT-SLICER..

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame,

To all whom lit may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS C. Vinum, of Hockanum, county of Hartford,and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Device for Slicing Fruit and to enable others skilled inthe art to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe, byreferring to the drawings, in which the saine letters indicate likeparts in each of the iigures.

The nature of this invention consists of an oscillating frame-work andfollower, in combination with a reciprocating fruit-holder, arranged towork upon a table or bed,'in which is secured a cut-ter or cutters, andoperated to and fro by means of a crank, with or without gearing.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure l is a side elevation, partly insection.

lllignre 2 is a top View.

A is a table or hed-plate, through which is formed an orifice, B, andacross which is` arranged and secured a double-edge cutter, C, whichrepresents one or more in number.

D is a reciprocating.fruit-holder, arranged upon the bed-plate A, `andis held and guided in its relative position with the bed-plate and itscutters, by means of .tongucd guide-plates E,which work against thesides of the bed-plate, and in the grooves E.

This holder is provided with an upright frame-work, l", in which isarranged a follower', G, actuated downward by a spring, H, so that, bylifting said follower, the fruit may be placed in the receptacle betweenthe follower and the bed-plate or cutters.

.This frame F is jointed at its lower end to the holder D, so that, bylifting the follower G, by its knob-spindie J, it may be turned overnearly a quarter turn in either direction, from a perpendicularposition, for the purpose of inserting the fruit into a receptacleformed in the holder therefor. fWhen it is again replaced in apcrliicndicular position upon the fruit, andheld in that position by aspring-catch or bolt J J.

K are gearing, appropriately arranged in boxes upon the bed-plate, andhaving a crank, L, arrangedrupon the end of one of the shafts; and aconnecting-rod, M, from said crank to a joint formation on thefruit-holder.

Now, it will be seen that when the fruit is placed in the receptacle ofthe fruit-holder,and motion is iinparted to the pulley or crank N, thefruit-l'iolder, with the fruit therein, will be rapidly reciprocatedback and forth over the cutters, andthe slices of fruit thus cnt willdrop through the orifice into any proper receptacle placed therefor.

The crank L maybe secured directly upon the driving-shaft, whendesirable, and thus dispense with the gearing, except when a greaterspeed is required for the cutting operation.

In the manufacture of these machines, variation of form of construction,size, and shape, and of material may be had, without departing from theprinciple of its operation.

I do not therefore wish to be confined to this exact mode ofconstruction.

I believe I have thus shown lthe-.natura construction, and advantage ofthis invention, so as to enable others skilled in the art to make anduse the same thereii'on'l.

I claim the upright oscillating frame-"Work F, and follower G, incombination with a 4reciprocating fruitholder I), operated by gearing K,crank L, connectingrod M, and table A, with double-edge cutter C,constructed and arranged as herein described, and for the purpose setforth.

FRANCIS C. 'VIBERT [n s] Witnesses: l

E. W. Buss, JEREMY W. BLIss.

